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Mining & the mines, 1948

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South Cessnock To Play Abermain. Champion Teams Clash for Coal [?]Dard's Trophies. Big Day at Sports Ground

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 17 August 1948 · page 3

The public of Cessnock are [?] for another great day's rugby league entertainment at the Cessnock sports ground on Sunday…

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Coal Price Increase

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 18 August 1948 · page 3

Caledonian Collieries-Ltd had advised Maitland City Council that from August 9 the price of coal had been increased by 1/10½ per…

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Britain’s Coal Export

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 18 August 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Aug. 18—Britain so this year has sent 1,257,000 tons of [?] to countries not entitled to Marshall aid This is…

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Mine Shafts to Be Covered

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 18 August 1948 · page 3

To eliminate the danger of [?] cra[?] out on [?] discussed mine sha[?] the chief [?]…

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New South Wales Coal Production

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 18 August 1948 · page 4

Hew South Wales coalmines produced. 224,469 tons of coal for the week ended August. Cessnock district produced 74,682…

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Coal Statistics Open Cuts Helped Production

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 August 1948 · page 1

Coal production in New South Wales for the first 24 weeks of 1948 was maintained at the 1947 level, a fall in…

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Miner Killed by Fall of Coal

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 18 August 1948 · page 3

KURRI, Wednesday.— When struck by a fall of coal at Richmond colliery to-day Hobert Partridge 40 a miner of 78…

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Miners Idle As Protest

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 19 August 1948 · page 5

CESSNOCK, Thurs.—The miners at Hebburn No. 1 colliery came home this morning as a piotest against the increase of…

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Breach Of Mine Rules

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 19 August 1948 · page 5

KURRI KURRI: Montague M. Moon, manager of Hebburn No. I colliery, at Kurri court bo-day proceeded against Robert Hall and…

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Reducing Dust Hazard In Coal Mines

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 4

LITHGOW, Friday.— Since he became a union compensation officer last year he had seen 49 men go out of the mines totally incapacitated by dust, the secretary of the Western District Miners’ Federation, Mr. J. King, told the…

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One Mine Idle

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Friday.— The only idle mine on the Maitland field to-day is Neath, which has an output of 400 tons…

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Coal From Britain

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 1

Victoria would pay about £7 a ton for the 120,000 tons of coal she would import from Britain— nearly three time as much as the…

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Coal Figures Challenged

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 9

The Joint Coal Board said during the week that figures relating to Coal Board fin[?]ce, published from a report released by…

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Open Cut Mine At Liddell

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 5

SINGLETON, Friday. — The Joint Coal Board advised the Municipal Council that it was the intention of the board to…

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Miner Killed By Fall Of Coal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 1

Caught in a fall of coal at Richmond Main Colliery on Wednesday, Robert Partridge, 40, a miner of Melbourne-street, Abermain was…

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Muswellbrook's Coal Production. 1939 and Now

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 4

The striking development of the coal mining industry was revealed this week by a railway officer, who stated that in 1939 the…

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Miners' 'Bus Over Embankment. No Serious Injuries

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 7

Twenty miners had remarkable escapes from serious injury when the 'bus in which they were travelling from Elrington colliery…

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Estimated Coal Production in N.s.w

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 10

It is estimated that for the week ended August 7, coal production in New South Wales was as follows— Cessnock, 74,682 tons tons underground;…

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Coal Board Grants Extra £5000 for Baths

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 10

The Coal Board has informed Kearsley Shire Council that it is granting an additional £5000 for the Weston-Kurri Kurri baths project…

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Why Welfare Is Necessary Joint Coal Board Officer Tells

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 3

The Coal Board was charged with the task of promoting the welfare of workers engaged in the coal industry and the provision of amenities and of health, educational, recreational, housing and, other facilities, said the Chief Welfare Officer for the…

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